GK
WORLD GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
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Fat Boy
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Fat Man
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Little Boy
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Little Man
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Detailed explanation-1: -This implosion-type plutonium bomb, nicknamed Fat Man, weighed 10, 800 pounds. The bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945, at 11:01 AM.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Manhattan Project produced two different types of atomic bombs, code-named Fat Man and Little Boy. Fat Man, which was dropped on Nagasaki, was the more complex of the two.
Detailed explanation-3: -The next break in the weather over Japan was due to appear just three days after the attack on Hiroshima, to be followed by at least five more days of prohibitive weather. The plutonium implosion bomb, nicknamed “Fat Man, ‘’ was rushed into readiness to take advantage of this window.
Detailed explanation-4: -On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay left the island of Tinian for Hiroshima, Japan carrying the uranium 235 gun-type bomb, named Little Boy.